3D Gaussian Splatting

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Jul 16, 2026

G $^2$ SR: Geometric Methods for Fast and Memory-Efficient Gaussian-based Surface Reconstruction

Few-view surface reconstruction recovers the visible surfaces of a scene from a few posed RGB images, providing the 3D models that robots need to explore and interact online. On mobile platforms, the reconstruction must be fast and geometrically accurate while keeping a small memory footprint to ensure safe and efficient operation. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) offers a high-fidelity scene representation, but building it from a few views is ill-posed, as many distinct surfaces reproduce the same images, making traditional photometric methods prone to "floater" artifacts. End-to-end methods resolve the ambiguity by regressing splats with large, usually Transformer-based, networks that require heavy compute and memory while generalizing poorly to new scenes. We propose G2SR, which exploits a well-posed core of the task: given cross-view 2D splat correspondences, 3D splats follow analytically from multi-view geometry. G2SR employs a lightweight neural frontend to detect and track 2D Gaussian splats on the image plane and an analytic backend to triangulate each into a metric-scale 3D splat. On ScanNet, Replica, and DTU, G2SR matches or exceeds the geometric accuracy of state-of-the-art end-to-end methods while running at 69-89 reconstructions per second within 203 MB of GPU memory (5-107x less) for 2- and 3-view inputs at 384 x 512 resolution, offering a practical path to online Gaussian-based surface reconstruction.

Dasong Gao, Vivienne Sze, Sertac Karaman

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

3D Gaussian Splatting 3D Reconstruction Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction

Jul 15, 2026

Instant NuRec: Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Reconstruction for Driving Scene Simulation

3D simulation platforms are critical for autonomous driving because they enable end-to-end policy evaluation, thereby reducing development costs and improving safety. In recent years, neural simulation has become predominant, with methods such as NuRec playing a central role; however, these methods remain relatively slow and typically require per-scene tuning. In this work, we present Instant NuRec, a feed-forward neural reconstruction model that turns a short multi-view driving log into a fully simulatable 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) world in a single forward pass. The model accepts multi-view input from a calibrated camera rig and emits a layered output consisting of static and dynamic 3DGS layers, a sky cubemap, and per-camera ISP corrections, while providing native support for non-pinhole camera models via 3DGUT. It reconstructs a 10-20-second multi-camera scene in roughly 1.5 seconds and achieves a PSNR on the Waymo Open Dataset that is 2.01 dB above the strongest evaluated baseline. Instant NuRec is deeply integrated into NuRec and is compatible with AlpaSim for closed-loop simulation.

NVIDIA, :, Jiahui Huang +14

NVIDIA†

3D Gaussian Splatting Multi-View 3D Reconstruction Dynamic Scene Reconstruction Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction Autonomous Driving Simulation

Jul 15, 2026

Posterior Variance Is a Constraint Map, Not an Error Map: Closed-Form Uncertainty for Radiative Gaussian Splatting in Sparse-View CT

Radiative Gaussian splatting reconstructs sparse-view CT fast and accurately, and recent work attaches per-Gaussian posteriors to yield per-voxel uncertainty maps. We ask what such a map actually measures: posterior variance is a data-constraint map, not an error map -- its alarms are trustworthy, its all-clears are not. Exploiting the strict linearity of X-ray rendering in the per-Gaussian densities, we derive a clamp-aware closed form that the unchanged rasterizer evaluates exactly in one forward pass, in volume and projection space: the infinite-sample limit of the sampling estimator of concurrent work, at ~8x lower cost. On the official 15-scene benchmark this uncertainty ranks true error on 14 of 15 scenes. Restricted to the object interior -- the tissue a clinician reads -- the ranking collapses (median Spearman 0.11, 0/15 pass), identically for a deep ensemble and for a strictly positive log-normal posterior: three constructions, two estimator families, no survivors. The mechanism is structural: about 90% of in-object error is bias that reproduces across retrainings, invisible to model disagreement; 73-81% of the full-volume correlation is carried by object/surround contrast; and an exactly solvable control puts the observed in-object ranking 4-5x below what a perfectly calibrated posterior with the same sigma-spread would score. The error scale, by contrast, is an engineering problem, and we solve it: reparameterizing the posterior contracts the cross-scene temperature spread from 19.3x to 2.6x, one scene-agnostic temperature transfers to unseen scenes (10/15 leave-one-scene-out), and the repaired scale tracks photon count at the Poisson-predicted -1/2 power. We distill evaluation practice that would have caught the illusion -- masked calibration, seed-wise bias decomposition, an exact-posterior reference -- and release all protocols, seeds and per-run evidence.

Chulin Zhao, Yiran Xu, Shu Liu

1Dundee International Institute, Central South University · 2Central South University

3D Gaussian Splatting Uncertainty Quantification Sparse-View CT Reconstruction Uncertainty Calibration

Jul 15, 2026

T3HG-Editor: Text-driven 3D Human Garment Editing with Body Priors Embedded in SMPL-X

While 3D Gaussian Editing (3DGE) has seen substantial progress, text-driven 3D human garment editing remains largely underexplored. Existing 3DGE works typically follow a paradigm that applies 2D editing techniques to multi-view rendered images and updates 3D Gaussians based on the modified images. Extending such methods to 3D human garment editing suffers from low-fidelity outcomes, caused by introduced distortions and garment inconsistencies. A promising breakthrough opportunity arises from the SMPL eXpressive (SMPL-X) model that embodies rich prior information for virtual humans. Motivated by this insight, we propose a text-driven 3D human garment editor termed T3HG-Editor, which delivers high-fidelity and garment consistent results by leveraging geometry and joint priors embedded in SMPL-X. Specifically, T3HG-Editor contains three stages, namely obtainment of editable Gaussians, garment consistent editing, and Gaussian updating with overflow pruning. The obtainment of editable Gaussians begins with seeding Gaussians along SMPL-X normals to generate sufficient near surface Gaussians, followed by a 2D mask constraint that precisely localizes the target Gaussians to be edited. The garment consistent editing aggregates tokens corresponding to the same SMPL-X vertex across multiple views and propagates them to their original views, enforcing garment consistency without requiring additional training. Gaussian updating with overflow pruning employs a Signed Distance Function (SDF) defined on SMPL-X to construct a human distance field, which is then integrated with a 2D semantic mask to prune overflowing Gaussians, thus preventing contamination of non-target regions. Experiments on multiple subjects and diverse garment types demonstrate that T3HG-Editor outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both editing quality and garment consistency.

Shaoru Sun, Xingtao Wang, Zihan Ma +4

Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China · Harbin Institute of Technology Suzhou Research Institute, Suzhou 215000, China · Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Macau, China +1

3D Gaussian Splatting 3D Scene Editing

Jul 14, 2026

ExtraGS: Enhancing Endoscopic View Extrapolation via Diffusion-Guided 3D Gaussian Splatting

Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (MIS) critically depends on reliable endoscopic perception for navigation and safety. However, conventional endoscopes provide only a limited field of view, leaving large portions of the surrounding anatomy unobserved. Recent neural rendering approaches, such as Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting, enable novel view synthesis from endoscopic videos, but their reliance on sparse observations often leads to severe artifacts when extrapolating beyond the training trajectory. In this work, we propose ExtraGS, a framework for enhancing endoscopic view extrapolation through diffusion-guided 3D Gaussian Splatting. Starting from an initial reconstruction, we introduce an uncertainty-guided virtual camera sampling strategy to actively explore blind spots and maximize information gain. The rendered views from these sampled locations are refined using a diffusion model to recover plausible anatomical structures, producing pseudo-observations that guide further optimization. To prevent the generated content from degrading reliable regions, we adopt a confidence-weighted fine-tuning strategy when incorporating these pseudo-observations. Extensive experiments on multiple public endoscopic datasets demonstrate that ExtraGS significantly reduces extrapolation artifacts and achieves state-of-the-art performance in endoscopic novel view synthesis.

Cheng-Tai Hsieh, Jiwei Shan, Han Fang +6

School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Navigation and Location-Based Services, Shanghai, China · Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering and the T Stone Robotics Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China +1

3D Gaussian Splatting Endoscopy Medical Imaging Novel View Synthesis Active View Selection

Jul 14, 2026

Implicit 4D Gaussian Splatting for Fast Motion with Large Inter-Frame Displacements

Recent 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) methods often fail under fast motion with large inter-frame displacements, where Gaussian attributes are poorly learned during training, and fast-moving objects are often lost from the reconstruction. In this work, we introduce Spatiotemporal Position Implicit Network for 4DGS, coined SPIN-4DGS, which learns Gaussian attributes from explicitly collected spatiotemporal positions rather than modeling temporal displacements, thereby enabling more faithful splatting under fast motions with large inter-frame displacements. To avoid the heavy memory overhead of explicitly optimizing attributes across all spatiotemporal positions, we instead predict them with a lightweight feed-forward network trained under a rasterization-based reconstruction loss. Consequently, SPIN-4DGS learns shared representations across Gaussians, effectively capturing spatiotemporal consistency and enabling stable high-quality Gaussian splatting even under challenging motions. Across extensive experiments, SPIN-4DGS consistently achieves higher fidelity under large displacements, with clear improvements in PSNR and SSIM on challenging sports scenes from the CMU Panoptic dataset. For example, SPIN-4DGS notably outperforms the strongest baseline, D3DGS, by achieving +1.83 higher PSNR on the Basketball scene.

Seung-gyeom Kim, Areum Kim, Yongjae Yoo +1

Department of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Hanyang University · Hanyang University ERICA

3D Gaussian Splatting 4D Reconstruction Implicit Neural Representations Dynamic Scene Reconstruction

Jul 13, 2026

HyperGS: Fast and Generalizable Gaussian Video Representation

Gaussian Splatting has emerged as an effective representation for video, but existing methods rely on per-video optimization. This leads to slow encoding and limits generalization across videos. To amortize this optimization, we propose HyperGS, a feedforward, optimization-free approach that directly predicts Gaussian representations from any video in a single forward pass, speeding up encoding and decoding by orders of magnitude while generalizing to out-of-distribution videos at higher resolutions. In HyperGS, we design a factorized spatiotemporal Transformer to extract tokens from video, and a learnable query-based Transformer to obtain 8-parameter Gaussian representations for each video frame. We find that naively predicting Gaussians across diverse videos induces a needle-like degeneration that collapses training, and address this with a rank-based geometric regularizer whose strength adapts dynamically to stabilize optimization. HyperGS achieves encoding at

10^4

--

10^5\times

the speed of per-video Gaussian optimization at matched reconstruction quality while generalizing zero-shot to

720p

video, enabling higher-resolution rendering without re-encoding. HyperGS improves PSNR by +2.9--3.1 dB over the prior video encoders on K400, SSv2, and UCF101 at a smaller video representation size. By predicting explicit 2D Gaussians in a single forward pass, HyperGS combines the fast, flexible rendering of Gaussian Splatting with the speed and generalization of feedforward prediction, advancing Gaussians as a practical direction for fast and generalizable video representation.

Fatimah Zohra, Chen Zhao, Shuming Liu +2

1King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) · 2Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

3D Gaussian Splatting Video Representation Learning

Jul 13, 2026

SalientGS: Unified SfM-to-3DGS with Importance-Guided MCMC Gaussian Allocation

Reconstructing 3D scenes from unordered images remains bottlenecked by expensive Structure-from-Motion (SfM) preprocessing and frozen pose interfaces. We present SalientGS, a unified SfM-to-3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) pipeline. Its central contribution is importance-guided Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Gaussian allocation, which aggregates multi-view residuals into per-Gaussian underfit and redundancy signals. These signals define a smooth importance-weighted sampling distribution that biases both birth and relocation toward underfit regions. This reallocates capacity from well-fit areas without altering the underlying stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics (SGLD). SalientGS achieves end-to-end reconstruction in 15 minutes with state-of-the-art perceptual quality. The supplementary material provides dedicated sections for Per-Scene Qualitative Comparisons and Per-Image Learned Perceptual Image Patch Similarity (LPIPS) Analysis, including failure cases. Code and evaluation scripts are available at https://github.com/Six-Bit-TX/SalientGS.

Tianyu Xiong, Rui Li, Suning Ge +1

School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China · CEMSE, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

3D Gaussian Splatting Adaptive Gaussian Densification Multi-View 3D Reconstruction

Jul 13, 2026

GeoGS-SLAM: Online Monocular Reconstruction Using Gaussian Splatting with Geometric Priors

SLAM methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have demonstrated impressive tracking and mapping performance, but typically require additional geometric information from external depth sensors. Meanwhile, recent SLAM systems that leverage geometric priors from pre-trained feed-forward models enable real-time dense reconstruction, yet often discard original RGB information during optimization, thus degrading overall reconstruction quality. We present GeoGS-SLAM, an online monocular dense reconstruction system that combines the 3DGS-based map representation with learned geometric priors. Given uncalibrated RGB input, we first employ a feed-forward visual geometry model to predict camera and scene priors. The Gaussian scene map is then expanded by directly sampling Gaussian primitives from both RGB input and geometric priors. Camera poses and the scene map are jointly optimized through a coarse-to-fine strategy that minimizes both photometric and geometric losses. To ensure global consistency, we further incorporate online loop closure detection and pose graph optimization. Extensive experiments across indoor and outdoor benchmarks demonstrate that GeoGS-SLAM achieves superior rendering quality and tracking accuracy compared to state-of-the-art methods while maintaining online real-time performance. Project page: https://rlgao.github.io/geogs_slam.

Ruilan Gao, Letian Jin, Yu Zhang

State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 310027. · Key Laboratory of Collaborative Sensing and Autonomous Unmanned Systems of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, China, 310027.

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping 3D Gaussian Splatting 3DGS SLAM Monocular 3D Reconstruction Visual SLAM

Jul 13, 2026

AsySplat: Efficient Asymmetric 3D Gaussian Splatting for Long-Sequence Scene Modeling

Recent generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting models have advanced long-sequence novel view synthesis (NVS), but at the cost of substantial redundant computation. We identify that the redundancy can be mitigated based on two observations: (i) high-precision geometry is not strictly required for high-quality NVS; (ii) appearance learning is generally easier than geometry recovery. Motivated by these insights, we propose an asymmetric architecture that decouples geometry and appearance modeling. The geometry branch processes coarse-grained tokens with most of the parameters for multi-view reconstruction, while the appearance branch operates on fine-grained tokens to capture details using significantly fewer parameters. The two branches interact through bilateral connections, enabling mutual guidance for their respective tasks. This task-aware asymmetry reduces the computational redundancy and allocates the computation more judiciously, thereby increasing parameter efficiency and enabling smaller models to achieve strong performance. On 32-view 960P inputs, our model matches optimization-based methods while delivering nearly 800x speedup, and surpasses the zero-shot performance of state-of-the-art generalizable models with markedly fewer parameters and reduced training/inference overhead, achieving an overall efficiency improvement.

Yingji Zhong, Dave Zhenyu Chen, Fuzhao Ou +4

1HKUST · 2Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab · 3CityU

3D Gaussian Splatting 3DGS Acceleration Multi-View 3D Reconstruction Novel View Synthesis Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction

Jul 12, 2026

DP-Splat: Bayesian Nonparametric Complexity Control for Gaussian Splatting

3D Gaussian Splatting represents scenes as finite mixtures of anisotropic Gaussians whose number of components

K

is set by heuristic density control or user caps. Variational Bayes Gaussian Splatting (VBGS) recast splat fitting as conjugate variational inference, but

K

remains fixed. We replace the finite symmetric Dirichlet over mixture weights with a truncated stick-breaking Dirichlet-process prior -- and, as a theory-backed alternative, a sparse overfitted finite Dirichlet -- so that the number of occupied components adapts to the data while every update remains a closed-form coordinate-ascent step; a natural-gradient stochastic variant makes the per-step cost independent of the number of points. We give an exact monotonicity guarantee, a rigorous truncation-error bound correcting an anti-conservative large-

α

approximation in common use, and an honest account of what the fitted number of components estimates. Empirically: (i) the effective complexity

\hat{K}

adapts to scene complexity and recovers the true

K

within

\pm 1

on well-separated synthetic data with regime-appropriate concentration; (ii) a deconfounded comparison shows the DP prior's contribution is complexity selection, not per-component efficiency -- converged DP fits exceed single-pass fixed-

K

VBGS by +2.7 dB at matched budgets yet tie an equally converged fixed-

K

baseline, and on 3D scenes DP-Splat matches or exceeds VBGS's held-out color prediction with 5.9-7.6x fewer components; (iii) the posterior-predictive color variance is well calibrated on model-matched synthetic data; and (iv) the ordering suggested by exact-posterior asymptotics reverses under mean-field coordinate ascent: the DP prior resists over-splitting while the sparse finite mixture saturates its truncation, a gap between variational practice and posterior asymptotics documented across three orders of magnitude in

N

.

Aqi Dong

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

3D Gaussian Splatting Bayesian Mixture Models Gaussian Mixture Models Bayesian Inference Variational Inference

Jul 12, 2026

MAC-Splat: Multi-Attribute Consistency for High-Fidelity Sparse-View Reconstruction

Reconstructing high-fidelity 3D scenes from sparse-views remains a central problem in generalizable neural rendering. Existing generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods often exhibit geometric artifacts in sparse-view settings, since supervision based solely on 2D photometric losses cannot resolve depth and correspondence ambiguities. To address this issue, we propose MAC-Splat, a training framework built around direct 3D consistency supervision. MAC-Splat builds on the MASt3R geometric backbone and a frozen DINOv3 encoder to obtain semantically informed 2D correspondences, which serve as geometric anchors for 3D supervision. Using these anchors, we define the Multi-Attribute Consistency (MAC) loss. This objective jointly regularizes the 3D attributes of matched Gaussians, including their position, shape, and appearance, by enforcing agreement in a common world coordinate frame. The formulation is robust to outliers and respects the geometry of covariance matrices, which leads to stable training under sparse-view conditions. Experiments on ScanNet++ show that MAC-Splat outperforms strong baselines, with particularly large gains under different overlap regimes. In particular, it improves average PSNR over Splatt3R by more than 4.5 dB, reduces LPIPS, and maintains performance as the camera pose gap increases. These results indicate that a direct, multi-attribute 3D consistency objective, when combined with high-quality correspondences, is effective for addressing the ill-posed sparse-view reconstruction problem.

Jinqian Yang, Yichen Wu, Wanhua Li +4

Xidian University, China · Harvard University, USA · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore +2

Multi-View Consistency 3D Gaussian Splatting Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction

Jul 12, 2026

Incremental Online Scene Reconstruction by 3D Gaussian Triangulation

Incremental scene reconstruction is essential for real-world applications. Although 3D Gaussian Splatting shows strong potential, most existing approaches require offline conversion of the optimized Gaussians into an intermediate implicit field for explicit mesh extraction, which hinders seamless integration with downstream tasks. To address this limitation, we propose a novel online framework that incrementally reconstructs and updates high-fidelity explicit meshes by directly triangulating a dense geometric Gaussian representation, which supports both high-quality rendering and incremental surface reconstruction. Moreover, we present a direct meshing algorithm that efficiently extracts and updates the mesh from the Gaussian set. To ensure mesh accuracy, we enforce a plane-based pulling constraint that dynamically aligns 3D Gaussian primitives to the approximated local surface. Furthermore, our framework significantly reduces memory and computational overhead during long-sequence processing by dynamically freezing fully optimized historical regions. Experiments on public datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms conventional Gaussian-based methods on both rendering quality and reconstruction accuracy.

Yanjin Zhu, Shaofan Liu, Jianke Zhu

Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, Shenzhen, China

3D Gaussian Splatting Streaming 3D Reconstruction 3D Reconstruction 3D Mesh Reconstruction

Jul 11, 2026

Grassmannian Splatting I: Moving rank-2 Spacetime Surfels for Dynamic Scene Rendering

We introduce Grassmannian splatting, a dynamic scene representation whose primitives are Gaussians supported on 3-planes in spacetime

\R^4

: generically, spatial 2-planes in uniform translation along their normals. Each primitive carries a unit normal

n \in \mathbb S^3/\{\pm 1\} \cong \mathrm{Gr}(3,4)

and an unconstrained factor

L \in \mathbb R^{4 \times 3}

, with covariance

Σ_{4\mathrm{D}} = (P_n L)(P_n L)^T, \qquad P_n = I - n n^T.

For generic

L

and

n \neq \pm e_0

, conditioning on time returns a rank-2 surfel at every frame. The normal of the disk and its velocity along that normal are read off from

n

; the disk shape and the tangential drift of its center are set by

L

. Existing native 4D Gaussian splatting methods [\it{Yang et. al. 2023,Duan et. al. 2024}] slice full-rank spacetime covariances, so their per-frame primitive is a volumetric ellipsoid; since conditioning lowers rank by exactly one, a rank-2 surfel in the slice requires a rank-3 spacetime covariance, and the parameterization above realizes exactly these. The motion model is closed form, i.e. no deformation field is learned, and no custom CUDA is required: the conditioned disk feeds a standard 3DGS rasterizer through its precomputed-covariance interface. A soft clamp in the Schur denominator regularizes the static orientation and continuously bridges rank-3 static and rank-2 dynamic behavior, so static and moving primitives form a single continuous family. On the 17 HyperNeRF scenes of MonoDyGauBench, training is fastest among all compared methods (4.9 to 5.6 times faster than the strongest quality baselines), while ranking second in PSNR, MS-SSIM, and LPIPS. Code: https://github.com/PaulCelanCoding/grassmannian-splatting

Aaron Maurice Berman, Shantanu Dave

3D Gaussian Splatting Dynamic Scene Reconstruction 3D Scene Representation

Jul 10, 2026

AnythingReality: Robust Online Gaussian Splatting SLAM for Open-Vocabulary VR Scene Exploration

We present a novel integrated architecture for robust online 3D Gaussian splatting, real-time VR exploration, and speech-driven Vision-Language-Model interaction. Unlike methods assuming clean depth or external poses, our system combines ORB-SLAM3-based pose estimation with online Gaussian reconstruction for noisy real-world data. A VR pipeline enables immersive exploration of incremental reconstructions; a semantic module transcribes voice commands, generates scene descriptions, and records points of interest. Against state-of-the-art online Gaussian splatting methods, we improve image quality on our dataset (+14.5% PSNR, +8.6% SSIM, -14.3% LPIPS) and TUM-RGBD (+11.7% PSNR, +7.8% SSIM, -21.6% LPIPS), with comparable or superior frame rates via quality-speed configurations. We achieve an 88% VLM object-recognition rate.

Timofei Kozlov, Dmitrii Maliukov, Andrey Marchenko +2

Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation · NLP Research Center, Moscow, Russian Federation

3D Gaussian Splatting Streaming 3D Reconstruction 3DGS SLAM Virtual Reality Visual SLAM Gaussian Splatting+1

Jul 9, 2026

SplatCtrl: Perception-Action Coupling via Gaussian Scene Representations and Reactive Robot Control

Robotic manipulators excel in structured environments but face substantial challenges in unstructured and dynamic settings. This paper presents SplatCtrl, a unified framework for real-time scene reconstruction and reactive robot motion generation to enable collision-free robotic arm control in previously unseen and continuously changing environments. Building on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS), we introduce a hybrid voxel-based filtering and dynamic Gaussian relocation strategy that supports efficient scene reconstruction from RGB-D streams while accommodating environmental changes. For safe and reactive control, we further propose a method for deriving continuous signed distance functions from isotropic Gaussians, providing stable and differentiable collision probability estimates that bridge classical distance fields with the modern implicit representation. These continuous distance metrics are incorporated into control barrier functions, resulting in a unified perception-action coupling framework that supports smooth and reliable real-time motion generation in response to scene changes. Experimental validation in simulation, on physical robot, and within shared human-robot workspace demonstrates the framework's effectiveness, achieving integrated scene reconstruction and reactive control in uncertain, and dynamic environments.

Siddarth Jain, Ho Jin Choi

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA, USA. · University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Robotic Control 3D Gaussian Splatting Dynamic Scene Reconstruction Robot Collision Avoidance

Jul 9, 2026

Geometry and Gradient-based Partitioning for Panoramic Outdoor Reconstruction

Scaling 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to large outdoor scenes is costly in both data acquisition and computation. Adopting panoramic images with equirectangular projection (ERP) can reduce capture effort via their full

360^{\circ}

field of view, yet the resulting omnipresent visibility invalidates existing partitioning strategies that rely on local camera frustums, causing block-wise optimization to degenerate into global training. Thus, we propose PanoLOG, a two-stage coarse-to-fine framework equipped with a Geometry and Gradient-based Partitioning Strategy tailored for large-scale panoramic 3DGS reconstruction. In the global coarse stage, PanoLOG leverages sky-sphere modeling and panoramic monocular depth supervision for reliable geometry, while in the refinement stage, G

^2

PS builds adaptive bounding volumes via parallax-driven uncertainty and assigns cameras via gradient-based importance scoring. Furthermore, we construct Pano360, the first benchmark on large-scale panoramic dataset for outdoor scene reconstruction. Extensive experiments demonstrate that G

^2

PS achieves state-of-the-art rendering quality while maintaining scalable, block-parallel training. Our models, training code, and dataset are publicly available.

Weijian Chen, Weibo Yao, Yuhang Zhang +7

1Insta360 Research · Sun Yat-sen University · South China University of Technology +3

3D Gaussian Splatting Panoramic 3D Reconstruction 3D Reconstruction

Jul 9, 2026

StereoSplat+: Feed-Forward Stereo Gaussian Splatting with Diffusion-Assisted Progressive Inference

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled high-quality, render-ready scene representations for novel-view synthesis. However, most existing 3DGS pipelines rely on multi-view observations (or non-causal access to future frames) to achieve sufficient coverage, which is often unavailable in on-device robotics and AR settings where sensing is restricted to a single stereo rig. Recovering a high-quality 3DGS scene from one stereo observation, therefore, remains challenging due to occlusions, limited field of view, and missing geometry. We present StereoSplat+, a diffusion-enhanced feed-forward framework that enables causal reconstruction from a single stereo pair. Our method builds on two key components. First, we propose StereoSplat, an input-invariant feed-forward 3D Gaussian estimator that takes a variable number of posed stereo pairs as input and predicts high-quality 3D Gaussians. StereoSplat fuses complementary geometry cues via a cost-volume branch and a triplane-based 3D volume branch and leverages continuous pose encoding to generalize across view counts and camera configurations. Second, since multiple posed stereo pairs are typically unavailable at inference time, we introduce a diffusion-enhanced one-shot progressive inference scheme called StereoSplat+: starting from one stereo pair, we render novel stereo views from the predicted 3DGS, refine them with a one-step diffusion enhancer, and feed them back as additional inputs to update the 3DGS. Experiments on the KITTI-360 dataset show that StereoSplat+ improves novel-view rendering quality and geometry accuracy, especially in occluded regions and under strong view extrapolation, outperforming recent feed-forward 3DGS baselines.

Zihua Liu, Masatoshi Okutomi

Department of systems and Control Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan.

3D Gaussian Splatting 3D Reconstruction Novel View Synthesis Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction

Jul 9, 2026

Track2Map: Online Deformable SLAM with Motion-Aware Pose Optimization in Robotic Surgery

Gaussian splatting is the current state-of-the-art for dense, deformable 3D anatomy reconstruction in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS); however, most pipelines are offline and depend on accurate camera trajectory priors (often from robotic kinematics), limiting applicability when priors are missing or noisy. To address these limitations, we propose Track2Map, an online 3D Gaussian Splatting pipeline that jointly optimizes camera trajectory and 3D deformable scene representation directly from surgical video. Track2Map is therefore capable of robust 3D reconstructions when camera trajectory priors are either absent or noisy, and due to its online nature it effectively works as a Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) method. To stabilize optimization in the presence of tissue motion and ambiguous visual cues, we introduce a track-anchored deformation initialization using dense 2D point tracks. Track statistics are further utilized to disentangle camera motion from scene deformation by detecting static camera periods and reducing drift during incremental mapping. Experiments on StereoMIS show improved reconstruction quality and camera trajectory against competing SLAM methods, as well as compared to non-SLAM methods that utilize camera trajectory priors. The code is available at https://track2map.github.io/.

Tianyi Song, Sierra Bonilla, Xinwei Ju +6

Department of Computer Science and UCL Hawkes Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK · Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA 94086, USA

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping 3D Gaussian Splatting 3DGS SLAM Dynamic Scene Reconstruction Deformable Shape Reconstruction Surgical Robotics

Jul 9, 2026

On the Design of Mixture-of-Experts for Dynamic Gaussian Splatting

Dynamic scene reconstruction remains challenging due to the heterogeneous and spatially varying nature of real-world motion. Although recent 3D Gaussian Splatting methods have introduced diverse deformation formulations for dynamic novel view synthesis, each method typically relies on a single deformation model within its representation, which limits robustness across diverse dynamic scenarios. In this work, we study a fundamental problem-multi-deformation modeling for dynamic 3D Gaussian representations-under two distinct integration constraints that differ in when and how multiple deformation experts interact during training. From a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) perspective, we view multi-deformation modeling as the problem of combining multiple specialized deformation models within a unified 3D representation. We first introduce Mixture of Deformation Experts (MoDE), which integrates multiple deformation experts directly into the deformable Gaussian Splatting pipeline through joint optimization. In MoDE, experts operate on a shared canonical Gaussian representation, enabling multi-deformation modeling without introducing additional training stages or modifying the original optimization schedule. In contrast, we further present Mixture of Experts for Dynamic Gaussian Splatting (MoE-GS) under a different integration constraint, where deformation experts are optimized independently and combined through a separate routing stage. As a result, expert interaction occurs over non-canonical Gaussian representations after individual optimization. Together, these two approaches provide alternative strategies for multi-deformation modeling, clarifying how integration constraints shape the design and behavior of deformation experts in dynamic 3D Gaussian representations. Our code is available at: https://github.com/cvsp-lab/MoE-GS-studio.

In-Hwan Jin, Hyeongju Mun, Joonsoo Kim +2

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea · Immersive Media Research Section, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, Republic of Korea · Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and JYS AI Nexus Institute, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea

3D Gaussian Splatting Dynamic Scene Reconstruction Dynamic Novel View Synthesis Mixture-of-Experts Models

Jul 8, 2026

GeoGS-SLAM: Geometry-Only Gaussian Splatting for Dense Monocular SLAM

Dense visual SLAM is a fundamental problem in robotics. Recent advances in 3DGS have demonstrated its potential for dense SLAM. Existing 3DGS frameworks focus on both appearance and geometry modeling. However, scene geometry is typically more critical for SLAM than novel view synthesis because downstream robotic tasks, such as navigation and obstacle avoidance, rely primarily on accurate spatial geometry rather than photorealistic rendering. This observation raises a natural question: Is it feasible for 3DGS to perform 3D reconstruction without scene appearance modeling? Motivated by this, we propose Geometry-only Gaussian Splatting (GeoGS), which directly reconstructs scene geometry, and further present GeoGS-SLAM, a dense visual SLAM system built upon this representation. Specifically, GeoGS retains only spatial parameters to reduce the number of per-primitive parameters by over 80%. In contrast to existing 3DGS methods, GeoGS focuses solely on geometric reconstruction, which significantly reduces the number of Gaussian primitives, accelerates geometric convergence, and enhances robustness to illumination variations. In addition, we present an effective training framework that optimizes the Gaussian primitives via single-view and multi-view geometric and photometric supervision, and speeds up geometry convergence with a local-plane driven initialization that better aligns primitives with local structures. Furthermore, we introduce a map update strategy for loop closure that globally transforms the Gaussian map to align it with the corrected pose estimates, thereby preventing map tearing caused by inconsistent per-viewpoint pose corrections in existing methods. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world benchmarks demonstrate that our method outperforms SOTA methods in terms of online mapping efficiency and geometric reconstruction quality.

Lipu Zhou, Yaoyun Kang, Junxiang Pang +3

The authors are with the School of Instrument Science and Opto-electronics Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping 3D Gaussian Splatting Monocular 3D Reconstruction Visual SLAM

Jul 8, 2026

NoDrift3R: Raymap-Guided Coupling for Drift-Robust Unposed Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction

Pose-Free Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for fast scene reconstruction. However, its performance degrades significantly in long image sequences due to cumulative camera pose estimation drift, which propagates errors into geometric modeling and severely limits rendering fidelity. In this work, we revisit the long-sequence bottleneck and identify pose drift as the primary factor restricting reconstruction quality. Furthermore, while SfM-based pseudo ground-truth poses introduce sensor noise, purely rendering-based supervision often leads to optimization instability and local minima due to the entangled optimization of geometry and pose. To address the challenges, we propose a synergistic pose-free framework that explicitly couples geometry and appearance via a Raymap-Guided Coupling Module (RGC). Concretely, we anchor Gaussian centers to raymap-induced geometry and jointly optimize RGB reconstruction, raymap consistency, and camera regularization under a unified objective, yielding a bidirectional feedback loop: stronger geometry improves rendering, and appearance supervision in turn refines geometry and pose. To further stabilize learning across wide temporal ranges, we introduce a Dual-Frequency Viewpoint Scheduling strategy that combines easy-to-hard interval expansion with replay of short-interval pairs. Extensive experiments across in-domain and cross-domain datasets show consistent gains in both rendering and pose estimation, with notably improved robustness on long sequences. Ablation studies validate our central insight: explicitly designed geometry-appearance synergy is the key to scalable and drift-robust pose-free feed-forward 3D reconstruction.

Xiangyu Sun, Liu Liu, Seungkwon Yang +4

Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea · ⋆Intern at Horizon Robotics · Horizon Robotics, China +1

3D Gaussian Splatting 3D Reconstruction Camera Pose Estimation Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction

Jul 7, 2026

GaussFusion: Towards Multimodal 3D Gaussian Pretraining

3D Gaussian Splatting provides an explicit representation that jointly models geometry and appearance, serving as a scalable foundation for 3D representation learning. Existing pre-training methods for Gaussian representations, such as masked Gaussian reconstruction, primarily capture local structures but offer limited semantic supervision. In this paper, we propose GaussFusion, a multimodal pre-training framework for 3D Gaussian representations. GaussFusion integrates image and text supervision into masked Gaussian modeling through cross-modal semantic alignment, enabling the Gaussian encoder to learn both visual and language-level semantic information during pre-training. To better adapt masked modeling to the non-uniform distribution of Gaussian primitives, we further propose Gaussian Salience-guided Multi-scale Hole Masking (GSHM). GSHM constructs spatially continuous masked regions based on Gaussian salience. By applying hole masks at multiple scales, GSHM encourages the encoder to capture both fine-grained local patterns and broader structural dependencies. Extensive experiments on downstream tasks demonstrate that GaussFusion improves the transferability of Gaussian representations. Notably, GaussFusion outperforms Gaussian-MAE on ModelNet40 and ScanObjectNN (PB-T50-RS) by 0.61% and 3.85%, respectively.

Zhixuan You, Jihua Zhu, Yiding Sun +5

School of Software Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710100, Shaanxi, China · Wuhu HIT Robot Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., Wuhu, Anhui, China

3D Gaussian Splatting Cross-Modal Representation Learning Multimodal Pretraining 3D Representation Learning

Jul 6, 2026

SSA-3DGS: Unsupervised Removal of Screen-Space Artifacts for 3D Gaussian Splatting

Novel View Synthesis (NVS) methods, such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), rely heavily on the assumption of clean, multi-view consistent, posed input images. Real-world captures can violate this assumption due to screen-space artifacts-static occlusions fixed to the 2D image plane rather than to the 3D world. Common examples include physical sensor defects, environmental obstructions (such as rain or mud on the lens enclosure), capture obstructions (such as a thumb over the camera sensor or a dashboard visible in dashcam footage), and digital overlays (such as watermarks or UI elements). When present, they are erroneously baked into the 3D geometry as "floaters" or near-camera artifacts, degrading the quality of novel-view rendering. In this work, we propose SSA-3DGS, an unsupervised framework that jointly optimizes a 3D scene and a learnable 2D overlay to recover a clean 3D scene and the corrupting artifacts. By exploiting geometric consensus across views, our method effectively disentangles static artifacts from the 3D scene geometry without supervision or manual input. Across diverse synthetic corruptions and a self-captured real-world dataset, SSA-3DGS improves reconstruction fidelity by up to 9 dB PSNR over 3DGS trained on the same corrupted inputs, while faithfully preserving the corrupting artifact.

Kristof Overdulve, Lode Jorissen, Nick Michiels

Digital Future Lab, Flanders Make, Hasselt University

3D Gaussian Splatting 3D Reconstruction Novel View Synthesis

Jul 6, 2026

Rendering-Aware Bayesian 3D Gaussian Splatting with Native Uncertainty and Adaptive Complexity Control

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) is a strong representation for real-time novel-view synthesis, but its standard training pipeline relies on point estimates and hand-tuned heuristics, providing no native uncertainty or principled complexity control. This is most limiting under sparse views or fixed acquisition budgets, where a model must identify weakly supported geometry and select informative views. We introduce a rendering-aware Bayesian 3DGS framework that tracks Gaussian geometry with a Normal-Inverse-Wishart posterior over means and covariances using renderer-derived surrogate summaries. An optional Dirichlet-process extension adds a probabilistic component-usage signal, and the training schedule makes the closed-form versus approximate inference boundary explicit. Re-rendering posterior geometry samples yields native predictive uncertainty for interval calibration and active view selection. In a fixed-budget 16-to-32 active-view task, native NIW acquisition improves PSNR by +0.453 dB and LPIPS by -0.0146 over a scoring-only 3-member standard-ensemble baseline, winning 29/39 scene-seed pairs and 10/13 scene means; it also improves over PPU-style (+0.355 dB) and NIW-proxy (+0.401 dB) acquisition. NIW native intervals reduce 95% coverage error by about 17x relative to a shared proxy (0.046 vs. 0.796) and are about 10x closer to nominal coverage than a 3-member deep ensemble (0.047 vs. 0.454) at roughly one-third the training cost. As a reconstruction compatibility check, paired NIW-vs-standard analysis over 39 scene-seed runs yields +0.030 dB PSNR with 1.6% additional training time. These results position Bayesian 3DGS as a practical probabilistic scene representation for decision-facing tasks such as active view selection.

Gaoxiang Jia, Vikram Appia, Junzhou Huang +1

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. · Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering University of Texas at Arlington · Dept. of Mathematics & Division of Data Science University of Texas at Arlington

3D Gaussian Splatting Active Perception Uncertainty Quantification Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction Active View Selection

Jul 6, 2026

WildSplat: Feedforward Gaussian Splatting from Unposed In-the-Wild Images

While feedforward 3D reconstruction excels at efficient novel view synthesis, it typically falters when faced with scenes under varying illumination. To this end, we introduce WildSplat, the first feedforward 3D Gaussian Splatting framework capable of appearance-conditioned novel-view synthesis for unposed in-the-wild images. To handle inconsistent photometric conditions, we propose a dual-branch architecture that explicitly decouples geometry from appearance. The geometry branch extracts an appearance-invariant 3D structure and jointly predicts camera poses. To govern the rendering appearance, the appearance branch injects target appearance cues into the content features via a globally pre-modulated cross-attention mechanism. To further prevent feature entanglement, we introduce a joint multi-reference training strategy that stabilizes the training process. Extensive experiments show that WildSplat surpasses existing optimization-based and feedforward methods, achieving state-of-the-art performance in in-the-wild novel view synthesis and appearance editing from sparse inputs in a single forward pass.

Xiyu Zhang, Jingyu Zhuang, Hongjia Zhai +4

State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, China · vivo BlueImage Lab, China

3D Gaussian Splatting 3D Reconstruction Novel View Synthesis Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction

Jul 6, 2026

GUSH3R: Everyone Everywhere All at Once as Gaussians

Reconstructing dynamic human-scene environments from monocular videos is a challenging problem that requires jointly modeling scene geometry, camera motion, and non-rigid human dynamics while enabling photorealistic rendering. Recent feed-forward methods can efficiently predict geometry, but they are often limited to non-photorealistic representations such as point clouds and meshes, or they fail to handle non-rigid objects, particularly dynamic humans. To fill this gap, we present GUSH3R (Gaussian-Unified Scene Human 3D Reconstruction), a feed-forward framework for online dynamic human-scene reconstruction. From a monocular human-scene video, our method reconstructs dynamic humans (everyone) and static scenes (everywhere) in a single forward pass (all at once) as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) primitives (as gaussians), which are geometrically consistent and capable of novel view synthesis. Experiments on monocular human-scene datasets demonstrate that our approach achieves competitive novel view synthesis quality while significantly improving inference efficiency compared to optimization-based methods.

Keito Abe, Kaede Shiohara, Takashi Otonari +1

The University of Tokyo

3D Gaussian Splatting 3D Reconstruction Monocular 3D Reconstruction Dynamic Scene Reconstruction Novel View Synthesis 3D Human Reconstruction+1

Jul 6, 2026

UniSpine-GS: An Efficient Physics-Aware Gaussian Framework for Cross-Modality Multi-view Spine Image Synthesis

The diagnosis of spinal diseases is often assisted by 3D imaging techniques in clinical practice. However, precise 3D spinal assessment is limited by the high costs of 3D imaging hardware and the challenges posed by the physical differences between imaging modalities, which hinder the generalizability of models. To address these issues, we propose UniSpine-GS, an efficient, physics-aware Gaussian framework designed for novel-view projection rendering in multi-view spine imaging via a 3D-aware representation. Instead of performing explicit 3D reconstruction, our approach learns a geometry-aware Gaussian representation that ensures anatomical consistency across different views. We introduce SPWM, a structure-guided loss reweighting strategy to improve boundary fidelity and local details. We evaluate our method on the CTSpine3D dataset and a newly constructed 3D fetal ultrasound dataset, FeSpine3D. Our results demonstrate that UniSpine-GS significantly outperforms existing methods across all metrics, offering a practical and cost-effective solution for unified multi-view medical imaging. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/orangeisland66/UniSpine-GS.

Qiuhua Chen, Changning Yu, Na Huang +2

School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · The Department of Ultrasound of Renmin Hospital East Branch of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China +2

Multi-View Consistency 3D Gaussian Splatting Medical Imaging Novel View Synthesis Medical Image Synthesis

Jul 6, 2026

DeGenseGS: Geometrically and Semantically Decoupled Surgical Scene Understanding in 4D Gaussian Splatting

Real-time, text-promptable 4D reconstruction is indispensable for autonomous surgical interaction. Severe misalignment between semantic meaning and physical anatomy still persists, largely because existing solutions integrate Vision-Language Models into deformable fields via a rigid coupling scheme that tightly binds semantic features to geometric warping. In this paper, we propose DeGenseGS, Geometrically and Semantically Decoupled Surgical Scene Understanding in 4D Gaussian Splatting, a novel framework that independently models semantic evolution and geometric deformation. Specifically, we propose a HexPlane-based spatiotemporal entanglement module that uses shared kinematic latents to synchronize semantic mutations with scene dynamics, while explicitly disentangling semantic updates from geometric deformation. To further ensure robustness against reconstruction artifacts, we devise a Rasterization-Native Semantic Extraction mechanism that infers semantics from topologically continuous feature maps. Additionally, we incorporate an angular-aligned optimization strategy that conforms to the native hyperspherical latent space, thereby preventing semantic distortion. Extensive evaluations on the CholecSeg8k and EndoVis18 datasets demonstrate that DeGenseGS achieves state-of-the-art performance. Our framework yields enhanced geometric completeness and robust semantic-anatomic alignment, enabling spatially continuous segmentation despite drastic tissue deformation and topological transitions.

Yimo Wang, Bin Kang, Shuojue Yang +1

School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China · Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore · School of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China

3D Gaussian Splatting Dynamic Scene Reconstruction 3D Semantic Segmentation Surgical Video Understanding Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

Jul 6, 2026

Targeted Structure Completion for Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction in Autonomous Driving

Reconstructing 3D scene structures from sparse, low-overlap observations remains a fundamental challenge in autonomous driving. Recent state-of-the-art frameworks achieve promising results by incorporating voxel-based Gaussians, but incur substantial computational redundancy due to a uniform volumetric processing strategy. To bridge the gap between the efficiency of pixel-based Gaussian methods and the structural completeness of voxel-based Gaussian approaches, we propose FocusGS, a simple yet effective framework that shifts the paradigm from global densification to targeted structural completion. Our central insight is that structural completion should be decoupled from deterministic regions, with computation concentrated exclusively on areas exhibiting geometric ambiguity. Specifically, FocusGS addresses the localization challenge by deriving a 3D Geometric Ambiguity Manifold to accurately isolate localized areas prone to occlusion and high geometric uncertainty. To overcome the subsequent manifold completion challenge, we design a lightweight targeted structure completion module that selectively instantiates and optimizes continuous Gaussian queries strictly within this unstructured, sparse topological subspace. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FocusGS achieves a superior efficiency-quality trade-off, advancing state-of-the-art performance on driving-centric benchmarks while naturally reducing the total number of Gaussians by ~74% and decreasing rendering time by ~34%.

Guoqing Wang, Pin Tang, Xiangxuan Ren +2

MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, Institute of AI, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Central Research Institute, Huawei, Beijing, China

3D Gaussian Splatting 3D Reconstruction Adaptive Gaussian Densification Autonomous Driving Perception Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction